June 2013

Games direct

Air Partner is offering a weekly cargo service from Frankfurt to Sochi on the Russian Black Sea coast for the 2014 winter Olympics. Leading up to the games, Air Partner will operate a cargo service using a 747-400F every Monday morning between 18 November 2013 and 7 February 2014. Sochi is not particularly well served by European airlines, and so there is currently very limited airfreight capacity directly from Europe, ... [+]

Ten years of flying our four-legged friends

Virgin Atlantic is celebrating ten years of flying pets around the world. As the first scheduled airline to carry cats and dogs from the US into London Heathrow under the Defra Pet Travel Scheme, Virgin Atlantic has flown over 15,000 pets since the “Flying Paws” scheme launched in 2003 to ... [+]